Les triomphes de Louis le Iuste XIII. du nom, Roy de France et de Navarre. Contenans les plus grandes actions ou Sa Maiesté s'est trouvée en personne, representées en figures aenigmatiques exposées par un poëme heroïque de Charles Beys, & accompagnées de vers françois sous chaque figure, composez par P. de Corneille. Avec les portraits des rois, princes et generaux d'arme .; et leurs devises & expositions en forme d'eloges, par Henry Estienne. Ensemble le plan des villes, sieges et batailles, avec un abregé de la vie de ce grand monarque, par Rene Barry. Le tout traduit en Latin par le R.P. Nicolai.

VALDOR, Jean, Charles BEYS, Pierre de CORNEILLE, Henry ESTIENNE, Rene BARRY, & Jean NICOLAI.

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Titre : Les triomphes de Louis le Iuste XIII. du nom...

Éditeur : Imprimerie Royale, Antoine Estienne,

Date d'édition : 1649

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3 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with the French Royal fleur-de-lis and with red title label lettered in gold, with gilt fillet borders on both sides and inner panel with gilt fleur-de-lis corner pieces, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on the 2 titles, in French and in Latin, engraved headpieces and initials by Estienne de la Bella, full-page engraved plate of Hercules together with the bust of Louis le Juste as a child, and full-page engraved portrait of Anna of Austria with 3 emblems below in the preliminaries; fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with obelisk, 20 full-page allegorical plates of the exploits of Louis XIII as combatant warrior, and richly engraved plate of his memorial tomb in the first part; richly engraved frontispiece, and 35 full-page engraved portraits of Louis le Juste, his ministers, allies and members of the French royalty and nobility, each with a large engraving with 3 medallion emblems in text on the facing page in the second part; and richly engraved frontispiece showing the terrors of war by G. Ladame, and 51 double-page engraved plans of sieges, battles at sea, and maps in the third part, most of the engravings after the designs of Jean Valdor. (33) lvs.; 87, (1 blank); 142, (4) pp.; 112 (see below) lvs. First and only edition of this lavishly illustrated ambitious emblematic work glorifying the life and exploits of the French King Louis XIII, the Just. The compiler Jean Valdor (1606-1673) has set the trend for this kind of works, f.e. Ménistrier's metallic history of Louis XIV (Histoire du Roy Louis le Grand par ses medailles, emblèmes . (1689)) and Nicolas Chevalier's Histoire de Guillaume III . par medailles, inscriptuions . The grandiose folio volume, published by the Imprimerie royale, has a clear dual function: while it offers a factual history of the reign of Louis XIII, it also is clearly intended to make a statement about the glory of France. The work stands as a splendid testimony of pride in nationhood, expressed indirectly by means of praise of the monarch, and it is not coincidental that it was actually commissioned by Louis XIII himself, as we are told in the title. As the lengthy title also explains, the text is contributed by several different authors, including Charles Beys, René Bary, Henry Estienne (1531-1598), Estienne de la Bella, and the famous French poet and playwright Pierre Corneille (1601-1684), whose contributions are all in their first edition, and it includes as well as an account of the life and exploits of Louis XIII, a series of portraits of his allies and military leaders, together with reproduction and explanation of their devices (part 2), and also a series of highly detailed maps and plans of fortifications and battles scenes, two of them at sea (part 3). The work has been translated also in Latin by Jean Nicolai (1594-1673) and following the original French text, all the Latin texts are printed here as well. Louis XIII (1601-1643) was King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643, the first years with his mother Marie de' Medici as regentes. Along with his First Minister Cardinal Richelieu, Louis "the Just" is remembered for the establishment of the Académie française and participation in the Thirty Years' War against the House of Habsburg. France's greatest victory in the war came at the Battle of Rocroi , five days after Louis' death, "marking the end of Spain's military ascendancy in Europe.After the preliminaries (Titles in French and Latin (Ludovici Justi tertii decimi . triumphalia monumenta), dedications to Lous XIII and his wife Anne of Austria by Jean Valdor, 'Ode au Roy' with the plate of Hercules, 'Ode à la Reine', with the portrait of Anne together with her devices which are explated on the verso of the first leave of the Ode, laudatory poems by P. Le Moyne, , Charles Beys, Isaac Habert G. Coll;etetDe Scudery, Tristan L'Hermite, FuretiereF. Cassandre, Jean Ni. N° de réf. du libraire